The people of Iowa are a rare breed.

On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

I don't really believe in plans. They only change. My goal is simply to be able to make music and live life in this crazy, falling-apart world.

You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

I would dream of a place, a place to shelter all my madness.

The fire that had been raging inside her ever since she met him, ever since she left him, was now having gasoline thrown on top of it--by the gallon.

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.